Top 35 Social Angel Investors in India

Investor	Social India investments
Kunal Shah	3
Ramakant Sharma	3
Rudy Gopalakrishnan	2
Maninder Gulati	2
Shrishti Sahu	2
Kashish Sharma	2
Raghunandan G	1
Nataraj Sindam	1
Yuvraja C Singh	1
Rajan Anandan	1
Lalit Keshre	1
Daman Soni	1
Harpreet Singh Grover	1
Mohit Daga	1
Rohit M.A.	1
Gaurav Munjal	1
Phanindra Sama	1
Vikas Malpani	1
Sumit Jain	1
Sajid Rahman	1
Shivashish Chatterjee	1
Haresh Chawla	1
Fabrice Grinda	1
Samuel Choi	1
Kris Nair	1
Sweta Rau	1
Brian Norgard	1
Pras Hanuma	1
Ryan Valles	1
Jitendra Gupta	1
Beerud Sheth	1
Jasminder Gulati	1
Giri Malpani	1
Gokul Rajaram	1
Amrish Rau	1

Kunal Shah

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Nurturev — Revenue intelligence is the process of analyzing & interpreting sales data to make informed business decisions. Transform your sales conversations, gain insights, & drive revenue growth.
SydeLabs — Secure your generative AI foundation with SydeLabs. Build with unshakeable confidence. Unleash the full potential of your applications.
Mave Health — Mave Health uses science-based interventions to provide a comprehensive solution that fits effortlessly into an individual's lifestyle and causes no inconvenience.

Ramakant plays a central role in driving all technological innovations that form the backbone of Livspace while also leading our operations team. Before founding Livspace, Ramakant was a core team member and Vice President of Engineering at Myntra, a leading fashion eCommerce startup in India (acquired by Flipkart). Ramakant, graduated from IITKanpur, and holds an MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Jugyah — Jugyah is a technology company transforming how the next billion urban Indians rent their homes.Our pioneering, fin-tech powered business model is radically changing the long term home rental market.We believe there is a better place (”jugyah”) out there for both renters and property owners where they feel like they belong. Our goal is to takethem there.Backed by the largest real estate developers in the country and some of the top tier angels and VCs, we are currently in beta.
EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
General Autonomy — General Autonomy is a robotics firm on the cutting edge of manufacturing and automation for the future.

Rudy Gopalakrishnan - Executive @ Fidelity

Investment focus

Social, Content, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Murmur App — BG News Sports Menyediakan Tentang Berita dan Informasi Seputar Olah Raga

Maninder Gulati joined Lightspeed Advisory Services India in 2012. He brings over eight years of operating, business building, entrepreneurship and consulting experience to the firm.Prior to Lightpseed, Maninder was an Associate at McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, Maninder worked on several growth strategy and implementation engagementsacross various sectors including financial services, organized retail, digital music, data centers and building security/automation.Before McKinsey, Maninder co-founded a voice based life-streaming platform – lifeinlines.com, which allowed users to create a digital diary of their life. Prior to this entrepreneurial venture, Maninder worked at ITC Limited, India’s largest FMCG company. At ITC, Maninder was a part of the core team that launched ITC’s personal care business and he spearheaded key organization transformation initiatives such as Six-sigma for the tobacco business.Maninder graduated with a Dual degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay, where he held key leadership positions including that of Head of ‘The Entrepreneurship Cell’. He holds an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad, where he was a part of the Dean and Merit list.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

altM — altM is an alternate materials company on a mission to develop the future of materials to reduce carbon footprint and improve circularity in their supply chain.
Jodaro — Jodaro operates as an intermediary for trade that links customers and manufacturers directly.
Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires

entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health)

Investment focus

Internet, FinTech, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

OnFinance AI — OnFinance.ai is committed to harnessing the power of Generative AI for the betterment of the banking, wealth management, and insurance landscapes. Every Generative AI solution they develop is anchored in safety, efficiency, and the intricate nuances of their industry.NeoGPT, their in-house LLM (Large Language Model), and their flagship offering,embodies their belief in Generative AI's potential to redefine the financial sector. They provide secure AI Copilots, powered by NeoGPT, designed for internal teams at these institutions, boosting the efficiency of research, relationship management, sales, and customer support functions.
Thermoflyde — Refractory
leap.club — we are a powerful and private network of women leaders.

Kashish Sharma is the Chief Equity Officer at EquityList. He attended Vellore Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

OSlash — Transform long URLs into memorable shortcuts. Make information easy to access, find, & share with others in an instant with a complete URL management solution
Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.

Raghu is the Founder of Zolve. He is an avid reader and an encyclopedia in his own rights. After a successful 3-year stint with Feedback Ventures as a Consultant, he decided to follow his heart which craved for him to become an entrepreneur. He has degrees from IIM Ahmedabad and NITK Surathkal and hasn’t lost touch with the technical prowess fromhis days back in Texas Instruments.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Apps
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

GoalTeller — Goalteller aids you in planning for yours and your loved ones future. Make the best investment decisions that help you achieve your goals
Goodmeetings — Transform your sales and customer success teams. Record calls / customer meetings, review AI-curated reels of key meeting moments, human-level summaries / notes. Coach and collaborate with meeting insights
Method Financial — Method makes it easy for developers to embed debt repayment on their apps.

Nataraj Sindam

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Refrens — The most powerful business management platform for B2B service providers in India. Right from building your portfolio to generating leads for your business to manage your invoices etc, we have got you covered.
ConnectedH — Seeking medical help, in most of the cases, is not the best time in someone’s life. Having personally experienced the problems, we at ConnectedH are trying to make such interactions as simple or as hassle free as possible. Our vision is simple - Connected Healthcare. We connect different sectors of healthcare system and give the patients completecontrol over their information.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.

Yuvraja C. Singh is co-founder of the DMI Group, where he is jointly responsible for all aspects of the firm’s activities.Mr. Singh brings over two decades of experience in finance to his role, with an expertise in fixed income structuring, trading and risk management. He began his career in the risk management department at CommoditiesCorporation, a leading commodity and futures trading firm, now a part of Goldman Sachs. In 1995, he moved to Wall Street, trading mortgage-backed securities at Lehman Brothers and eventually running the firm’s mortgage derivatives desk. In 2000, he took on a new challenge and followed his entrepreneurial passion, becoming partner at Compro Technologies, a small software development firm in India. In 2003, Mr. Singh returned to Wall Street and joined the Fixed Income Department at Citigroup, where as a Managing Director he oversaw the agency CMO fixed rate and IO/PO trading Desks.Mr. Singh is a graduate from Princeton University’s class of 1994, with a B.A in Economics. He currently serves on the Board of Governors of The British School in New Delhi and on the Founders Council of the MS Chadha Center for Global India at Princeton University. He lives in New Delhi with his family

Investment focus

Apps, Social, Internet
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

HappyShappy — HappyShappy is a discovery platform for lifestyle ideas and the best products curated for India. It is also a universal cart and bookmarking tool where users save ideas, products, blogs, links and much more into their Dreamboards -- to save for themselves or to help others discover their fresh ideas.

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Lalit Keshre is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Groww.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires
Kikibix — Relish what tastes like your childhood, loaded with an array of healthy ingredients for scrumptiously flavorful and healthy snacks. Born from the vision of a doctor to make a brilliant amalgamation of tasty and healthy. Made with love, baked to perfection, a home for healthy cookies that taste amazing!
Offline — Offline is a private members' community for the top 10% tech founders and CEOs in India. Apply online to become a member.

Marketing and Growth Leader

Investment focus

iOS, Mobile, Social
Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

Zappka — Own this domain today. We make your shopping experience easy. Friendly and quick customer service.

Harpreet Singh Grover is a My home at Entrepreneur In Residence. Harpreet previously worked at CoCubes.com as a Co-Founder & CEO. He attended Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.Harpreet believes that the future of online assessments belongs to 'continuous evaluation' leading to a selection filter - till then quick and easytesting using rejection filters is a good tool. He previously worked with Inductis, a data analytics firm in the financial services domain. Harpreet graduated from IIT Bombay with a dual degree. Beyond work he is a published photographer, poet and an amateur mountaineer and follows the mantra - one life to live.

Investment focus

Education, Internet, Water
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Mitsu — Mitsu's a guided self-therapy app helping people who feel anxious or depressed build skills to manage their mental health. Reach out. Reach for Mitsu.
The Eat Better Company — Delicious, vegan and gluten free snacks that improve your health & keep you energized all day.
Mingout Social Technologies Pvt Ltd — Mingout is a lifestyle and dating platform that aims to connect individuals with common interests. Started by graduates from IIM Calcutta, IIT Bombay and IIT BHU.We are building the last mile of dating - a product to tie together match-making with date planning and execution. Today, a user has to jump through hoops to complete the journey offinding a person to eventually dating and beyond. Mingout will bring together the different platforms - matchmaking, social, discovery & listing and real-time execution under one product. Our users will therefore be able to have a safe, transparent conversation while planning dates, instead of mindless swiping and dating fatigue people experience today on other apps.

Mohit Daga

Investment focus

Financial Services, Social, FinTech
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Akudo — Akudo is a learning-focused neo bank for teenagers. Akudo offers the best prepaid debit card for teens and kids in India for all online and offline payments.
CreditDharma — Credit Dharma offers spam-free, personalised, and unbiased home loans. Get the lowest interest rate offers from the top banks and simplify your home ownership journey.

Rohit is the Cofounder and Managing Director of Cloudnine Hospitals - India’s leading maternity, women and child care service hospitals, a role he took over after being Executive Director for 9 years. Part of the founding team of Cloudnine, Rohit has played a crucial role in the establishment and growth of the company. He oversees and is activelyinvolved in several core areas of Cloudnine including strategy and planning, digital initiatives, employee engagement amongst overseeing the operations of the organisation with the goal of making the company a national level service provider of international quality and repute.

Investment focus

Health Care, Financial Services, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Neodocs — Meet Neodocs, the in-home wellness tracker that instantly and accurately uncovers what your body really needs.
Eka.Care — Eka.Care is a digitally enabled and connected healthcare ecosystem for better health outcomes. The platform, which is available in 12 languages, enables every Indian family to create multiple health profiles, store health records such as vaccination charts for children, developmental milestones, prescriptions, lab reports, and scans and allowssharing of records with healthcare providers.
HexaHealth — HexaHealth is a startup that aims to build a network of hospitals across the country, bring in digital solutions for better patient care throughout the patient’s surgery life cycle, and expand its consumer base to address the information asymmetry.

Gaurav Munjal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Unacademy.

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lissun — Lissun is an online counselling platform, which allows you to get expert advice and counselling for any mental health problem anytime and from the comfort of your own home.
Beyond Odds — Beyond Odds focuses on upskilling the workforce and offers support to yhe healhcare industry.
Up — Up was founded by IIT Bombay alumni, Mahek Mody, ex-Chief of Staff at Ather Energy and Mohit Sharma, ex-head of engineering at Chaayos. React is at the forefront of transforming modern Indian households. As India’s first D2C, smart home appliance brand, their maiden product the R1 has been designed to change the way we cook and expand ourrepertoire of food. The smart cooking appliance offers 10 inbuilt functions - chop, stir, sauté, whisk, blend, boil, steam, cook, knead & self-clean, along with an integrated smart weighing scale. The onboard 8” touchscreen offers consumers a guided cooking experience, with access to hundreds of recipes from across the world. React’s CookClub.ai will also allow users tocreate and share their own recipes and give them access to thousands more as they are built. React will begin deliveries of the R1 in June, 2022.

Co-Founder of Redbus.

Investment focus

Internet, SaaS, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
Jovian — Learn practical skills from Silicon Valley engineers, build real-world portfolio projects, and earn a certification. Kick start your data science career!
Bytebeam — Accelerate your IoT initiatives with Bytebeam - our platform makes it 10X simpler and quicker to build cutting-edge smart products

Vikas Malpani is the CEO and Co-Founder of Leher App, an Indian live streaming platform for Video Discussions. Vikas co-founded CommonFloor.com in 2007 which was acquired by Quikr.com in 2016. He used to lead the “Apartment Management Software” (Referred to as CommonFloor Groups) division at CommonFloor. Prior to his current stint, Vikasworked with SAP Labs India.He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from VTU, Belgaum. Vikas was awarded MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2012.

Investment focus

EdTech, Events, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Airmeet — Host highly customizable virtual and hybrid events to deliver immersive and interactive experiences to your audience. Book a demo today.
NxtWave — CCBP 4.0 Certification Programs are designed to transform you into highly skilled software professional. NxtWave offers a comprehensive online learning ecosystem to make you Industry-Ready
Seek Rewards — Connect with brands you love, people you admire and things you seek. Seek brings you personalized offers and deals while earning you real rewards for using the products and services you already love.

Sumit Jain is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur, He started online real-estate portal commonfloor.com for property seekers in 2007. Prior to that, he used to work with Oracle. As the co-founder and CEO, Sumit is responsible for driving the strategic direction for Commonfloor.com as well as delivering on company goals Hisresult-oriented approach ensures a constant and relentless focus on end-user satisfaction. Sumit Jain finds solace in a game of billiards. The game not only relaxes him, it also helps him catch up with friends or at times, make new acquaintances.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Internet, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AdmitKard — Want to study abroad ? Get expert advice and information on colleges, courses, exams, admission, student visa, and application process to study overseas.
Fixcraft — Fixcraft is changing the way car owners get their car repair done. Its tech enabled startup which plans to bring "Quality Service at Fair Price" to every user. Currently, the market is ruled by Authorised workshops on one end which charge exorbitant amount in the name of brand on one end and local mechanics which is a sub-standard qualitywork at lower price.
All Is Well — All Is Well is a fitness platform powered by artificial intelligence.

Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
10 Minute School — 10 Minute School is the largest online educational platform in Bangladesh. Through our website, app, and social media, more than 10 Million+ students are accessing quality education each day to accelerate their learning.

Shivashish Chatterjee is a Co-Founder of the DMI Group where he is a driving force behind the group’s vision and strategy.A 25-year veteran of international financial markets, Shiv brings a wealth of experience in Global Fixed-Income trading and analytics that complements and informs DMI’s activities. Shiv spent the vast majority of his WallStreet days at Salomon Brothers, a storied fixed-income powerhouse that was eventually acquired by Citigroup Inc. One of the youngest-ever Managing Directors at Salomon Brothers and Citigroup Inc., Shiv held a wide variety of positions spanning core research in interest rate and prepayment modeling to trading a range of interest rate derivatives and mortgage-backed securities. He became Co-Head of all securitized products trading in North America in 2004 before leaving in 2008 to start DMI.He graduated from Harvard University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Magna Cum Laude in Applied Mathematics. He is very active in Harvard alumni activities in NY City including serving on the Schools Committee for the Greater NYC area. Shiv is very passionate about technology and is an active angel investor in technology startups

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Mitsu — Mitsu's a guided self-therapy app helping people who feel anxious or depressed build skills to manage their mental health. Reach out. Reach for Mitsu.
HappyShappy — HappyShappy is a discovery platform for lifestyle ideas and the best products curated for India. It is also a universal cart and bookmarking tool where users save ideas, products, blogs, links and much more into their Dreamboards -- to save for themselves or to help others discover their fresh ideas.
Upswing Financial Technologies — Upswing Financial Technologies is an open finance B2B ecosystem enabler.

Haresh Chawla - Partner @ True North

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Education
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

FastJobs.io — FastJobs.io envisions a world in which job hunting is completely stress-free and convenient.
Onmove — Zast is a high speed long distance trucking aggregator enabled through technology.
Adaptive — Privileged access management for infrastructure resources including Kubernetes clusters, VMs, databases, data warehouses and more, without compromising on security

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.

Samuel Choi

Investment focus

Apps, Social, Internet
Seed
India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

My Mabu — My Mabu is an online platform that provides used cars sales, services, and maintenance services.
HappyShappy — HappyShappy is a discovery platform for lifestyle ideas and the best products curated for India. It is also a universal cart and bookmarking tool where users save ideas, products, blogs, links and much more into their Dreamboards -- to save for themselves or to help others discover their fresh ideas.

Kris Nair is the Founder of Kawa Space. Ex-Founder/CEO Exseed Space, ExseedSAT 01

Investment focus

Events, Social, Software
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Airmeet — Host highly customizable virtual and hybrid events to deliver immersive and interactive experiences to your audience. Book a demo today.

Sweta Rau, founder of White Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Women's
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Volopay — Volopay gives you control over your company's payments, expenses, budgets, and accounting. The best alternative for your business account. Join the hundreds of companies that trust Volopay.
CreditDharma — Credit Dharma offers spam-free, personalised, and unbiased home loans. Get the lowest interest rate offers from the top banks and simplify your home ownership journey.
PayGlocal Technologies — All-in-one payments solution for growing businesses. Process payments, manage risk and reduce fraud with PayGlocal.

Brian Norgard is Chief Product—and team builder extraordinaire—at Tinder. Under his leadership, Tinder is the fastest growing mobile revenue company in consumer Internet history.In less than 3 years, Tinder became the top-grossing mobile app in the world, created over $11 billion dollars in market value and led to hundreds of millions ofconnections worldwide. Brian is considered one of the most authoritative voices in the dynamics surrounding subscription-based business models.As a creator of blockbuster products like Super Like, Boost, Tinder Gold, Super Likeable. Brian extinguished industry records and redefined the physics of the category. Brian's product philosophy of simple, fun and useful is utilized throughout the industry and has resulted in more than 200 million lifetime downloads. His product team is consistently lauded as world-class and best-in-industry with respect to experience design. Josh Elman of Greylock Partner stated, "Brian built the smartest business on top of an active consumer product that we have seen in ages. Maybe ever."At 25, Brian was the youngest GM/VP in the history of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp after the acquisition of his first company Newroo where he served as the GM of MySpace News and FIM Labs. In 2012 Brian built one of the fastest growing Facebook applications in history (Chill) which reached over 30MM people. Thereafter, his Kleiner Perkins funded mobile messaging application Tappy became Tinder’s first acquisition. Brian also co-founded advertising network Ad.ly which was acquired by Nestivity in 2014.A respected and savvy investor, Brian helped entrepreneurs ignite franchises from AngelList—where he was the first angel investor—to Tinder. Brian's investment vehicle, Norgard Fund, invests in startups ranging from Lyft to SpaceX. Brian graduated with honors from Brown University where he received a prestigious NCIIA Grant awarded to top collegiate innovators.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Consumer
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Maximus — Elevate energy, sex drive, and promote hair growth with our doctor-prescibed programs. Featuring enclomiphene testosterone improvement. Find your protocol.
Ottr Finance — The Wallet For Everyone
Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.

CEO & President. An Advisor & Strategic Partner. Cross functional Director, CEO & a high Influencer with well planned Strategic Enterprise Management.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Iobot — Build Secure and Robust IoT Solutions with Thingsup IoT Platform, Gateways and Sensor Node Devices from iobot Technologies India
MoneyyApp — We at MoneyyApp are helping Creators to grow their businesses. The struggle of the creators trying to make a mark has been tiring, and we understand that! The inception of MoneyyApp lays the foundation for creators’ atrocities.
Paisagrowth — Paisagrowth is a loan origination, screening, and decision automation software designed for local financial advisors.

Ryan Valles

Investment focus

Social, E-Commerce, Information Services
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

BizzTM — BizzTM is a company that provides a variety of e-commerce categories of products through an aggregated delivery model.

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.

Beerud Sheth is the Co-Founder & CEO at Gupshup .

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Decentro — Decentro develops an API banking software platform designed to launch products in a hassle free way. The platform integrates with desired banking APIs permitting financial integrations with a few lines of code and claims to simplify the product development cycle, enabling clients to simplify the integration processes.
Decentro — Decentro provides banking and payment APIs that make it possible to quickly construct fintech solutions like banking, payment cards, neobanking, and collections and payout services.
ForeignAdmits — ForeignAdmits aims at addressing one of the biggest problems of personalized mentoring for students aiming to pursue higher education and eventually become an expert in their desired discipline of study. The idea is to seamlessly connect the student community with the graduate students and alumni of their dream Institutes for the higher study whowould guide them in building their profiles in a manner that would not yield them a successful admit but also gain essential skills to master the craft in their discipline of study.foreignadmits is a Technology empowered Mentorship based platform with an aim of Generic but Personalised guidance by target university & field specific mentors. The AI & ML-based tools for Profile Evaluation, Analysis and Application Management making the whole process of application- competent, time saving, efficient, transparent, and better in quality. It ensures unbiased suggestions and enough information/ data for judicious decision making by applicants for better offers from Universities.The students will have access to step-wise end to end guidance from planning to apply to these universities to actually gain admission and joining these universities. Students will be assigned, personal mentors. These mentors are graduates from some of the best universities in the world like Stanford, MIT, UC Berkley, Purdue, UT Austin, UIUC, TU Delft, ETH Zurich, EPFL, UBC, University of Toronto etc.These mentors will have personal interaction sessions/ chats/ conversations with the students and will provide them invaluable guidance in the profile building, application process ( including SOP making, applications, letter of recommendations etc.) to finding accommodations once admits have been received.Mission: To be a leader in providing authentic, cutting edge and comprehensive guidance platform for students aiming to pursue higher education in the best universities of the world.foreignadmits is a part of Edument Consultancy Pvt. Ltd.

Co-Founder at NowFloats.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Crib — Crib is building India's first digital ecosystem aimed at redefining how landlords operate, tenants stay and market sells.
Zippee — ZFW Dark Stores enables 30 Min, 2 Hour, & Same-Day deliveries for E-commerce brands through next-gen fulfillment, network of dark stores, & last-mile infrastructure across India. This capital-light approach is helping brands like Epigamia, Unilever, Rage Coffee, NOTO, and Baskin Robbins expand without upfront capital, overheads, &headaches.Our platform integrates seamlessly with all industry platforms to provide brands with complete visibility into supply-chain ops & customers: significantly improving customer loyalty, RTOs, & costs.E-commerce is becoming increasingly competitive with shifting brand loyalties. Stay ahead of the curve & be closer to your customers by offering them super-fast deliveries.If you're a D2C brand in India that wants to boost profitability & customer experiences- reach out & say hi!
Qwk, The Convenience App — Urban life is demanding, Convenience is broken. Qwk makes convenience accessible to everyone right at their disposal.

Giri Malpani of Malpani Ventures.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, EdTech
Seed, Angel
India

Portfolio highlights

ByteLearn — ByteLearn is an AI-powered assistant for math teachers and students in managing curriculum. ByteLearn offers personalized, one on one attention by leveraging artificial intelligence technology and guides students when they get stuck on math problems, enabling them to connect with teachers, and grasp concepts better.
CreditDharma — Credit Dharma offers spam-free, personalised, and unbiased home loans. Get the lowest interest rate offers from the top banks and simplify your home ownership journey.
STAGE — STAGE is an Indian language content platform for artist-led entertainment.

Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
Cache — Holding on to individual stocks that make up a large percentage of your portfolio? Cache gives you access to the same advanced investing products used by the ultra-wealthy to manage concentrated wealth.
Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

KUmar Pradeep — Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying.
OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
CoinCRED — CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.